November 9, 2012

Like a piper waking me up, whistling me out beyond what I’ve always known and into a foreign-familiar homecoming.

We’re here to heal. To come together. To drop the illusion of separate, competing interests.

When you win, I win. When I lose, you lose. Our planet feels this. Our populations feel this.

But these are the days of moving out beyond even these dichotomies. Of focusing not on rightness and wrongness, winning and losing, but on wholeness. On recognizing our unavoidable part in a bigger story and listening, whole-heartedly, BIG-heartedly, to how we want to shape that unique part.

And, goodness, we’re in such amazing company! I could link and link and link to the souls that are living out “These are the days!”

In this same vein is my deepening conviction that we who make livings from healing, heart-centered work are not in competition. We are soul doctors and soul nurses and spiritual therapists for a planet.

We each have a specialty, unique to us. And there are folks, many of them, for whom our specialties are most needed.

So. Bringing “these are the days” to these very weeks that finish our year – weeks when nearly all of us need soul support as we up our sugar intake, our activity levels, and time spent with dear ones who trigger our less-than-best power moves…

Here are some soul specialists to assist you this season. We are, all of us, trust tenders, and we’re consciously trying to embody the most healing, transformative kind of power.

Find something that nourishes and supports you (from this list or well beyond). Invest in it. Take seriously this call to embody – right in the midst of this season – your deepest power.

If you’re new here, my warmest welcome! This site is all about trust and how we can grow more of it. Here’s an article that summarizes what I believe about trust. And for a free ebook about a core trust-tending practice, click here. I’m so glad you stopped by!

Jen, yes! And so much easier said than done when working with individuals than when trying to organize widespread, civic change. I like the metaphor of conversation, though, with these things – how conversations really can be reframed again and again. Maybe that’s where work with individuals and work with groups can intersect: raising individuals’ awareness that they can shape and shift the ruts that conversations often fall into. I’m encouraged and inspired by your work to do just this.

LOVE this kristen- book marked it the other day when I was on the road. I’m so tired of the us vs. them, winners vs losers, makers vs takers, mentality. We’re all on this planet together & need to figure out a way to make it work together. These really are the days- I’m excited again & my faith in humanity has been somewhat restored ;)

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Kristin, I’m a bit late to the party here, but when I first read this post on Friday, my heart opened wide. I also have a seasonal offering I created last year that I’ll be relaunching soon. And I saw a number of these offerings come out first, and danced a happy dance to see that the message of going against the grain of our over-commercialized mainstream culture during the holidays is spreading far and wide. Years ago, Riane Eisler and Starhawk articulated the concept of “power-with,” which is the power of the circle, instead of “power-over,” the power of the pyramid, of domination, with one person at the top and the peons on the very bottom. It’s part of my calling to create as many circles as I can, and participate in as many as I can. There is room for all of us. We all have something unique to offer. And I am privileged to sit in virtual circle with you all. (*thank you* for writing this post, and for providing space for this conversation!)